The 1996 Adam Sandler movie about a long-driving hockey reject who plays the PGA Tour to save his grandmother’s home gave more to golf than great quotes (“the price is wrong, b----”), it also created a new way to swing.

Padraig Harrington has been known to break out his Happy Gilmore-style driver swing (sort of a combination of a hockey slap shot and a shot-put throw) for laughs and he saw a perfect stage at the PGA Championship’s Long Drive Competition on Tuesday. Take a look:

However, Harrington wasn’t able to get enough Happy-like distance to win Tuesday’s event. Louis Oosthuizen took first prize with a 340-yard drive.

The long-dormant contest, which the PGA of America revived this year, took place on PGA Championship host course Valhalla Golf Club’s 595-yard par-5 10th hole Tuesday.

Contestants got only one drive and it had to land in the fairway. The top-three finishers received $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000 in charity donations, respectively.

The champ Oosthuizen also got a money clip that looks like the one Jack Nicklaus won at the 1963 PGA Long Drive Competition and that Nicklaus still uses today [see photo below].

Oosthuizen might have a talent for these pre-tournament competitions. He won the Masters Par-3 Contest in 2010. No Par-3 Contest winner has ever gone onto win that year's Masters, but Oosthuizen wasn't too bothered by the famous "curse": he won the British Open three months later.

Bubba Watson, who leads the Tour in driving distance, declined to participate and hit a 3-iron off the 10th tee on Tuesday.